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Vikings Of The East: Igor & The Kievan Rus'
Post Date: 2018-05-03 07:57:55 by A Pole
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Map showing Varangian settlement (in red) and location of Slavic tribes (in grey), mid-9th century Khazar influence indicated with blue outline. Click for Full Text!
The China Mission -- The Marshall plan that failed
Post Date: 2018-04-29 18:05:04 by tpaine
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The Marshall plan that failed BookPage review by Deborah Hopkinson General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, will always be remembered for the victory on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Perhaps less known is the fact that he wasn’t the only, or even top, candidate for the job. In fact, it took President Franklin D. Roosevelt a long time to select his commander. Most expected the role to go to General George Marshall. As author Daniel Kurtz-Phelan puts it, the feeling was that since Marshall “had built the Allied war machine, he should lead it to victory.” In the end, though, his protégé got the command—and the glory. As ...
Civic Anarchism and Statism: I Believe in the State
Post Date: 2018-04-24 08:47:30 by Deckard
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The devotion with which statists implore their only saving state is often reminiscent of religious rituals of faith. When people keep saying that a world without a state is simply not possible, it almost sounds like the Catholic creed, albeit in small nuances: “I believe in the State, the holder of the monopoly on the use of force, the creator of the laws over us all, and in its government here below, its only legitimate representative, our master…” The strategy is obvious. The people’s age-old need for integration into a comprehensive affiliation is being addressed. This is the essence of religion (‘religio’ means incorporation), which nobody can object to. ...
14 Years Ago, Pat Tillman Was Killed and Gov’t Covered Up the Truth to His Death to Sell War
Post Date: 2018-04-23 05:03:26 by Deckard
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Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns Seventh-round NFL draft pick Pat Tillman wasted no time in setting records for tackles on the football field for the Arizona Cardinals. But in the Spring of 2002, after marrying his childhood sweetheart, Tillman walked away from his multi-million-dollar NFL salary and joined the Army with his brother. Tillman’s departure from the NFL was widely publicized, as was his death on the battlefield of Afghanistan in 2004. The Pentagon, President George W. Bush, and what seemed like all of America, celebrated Tillman’s heroic death. However, Tillman’s death was not heroic by any means. He was shot and killed by his fellow U.S. soldiers. ...
Bitter lessons 25 years after Waco, Texas, siege
Post Date: 2018-04-20 19:19:07 by Deckard
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© GettyTwenty-five years ago, FBI tanks smashed into the ramshackle home of the Branch Davidians outside Waco, Texas. After the FBI collapsed much of the building atop the residents, a fire erupted and 76 corpses were dug out of the rubble. Unfortunately, the American political system and media have never faced the lessons from that tragic 1993 day.ADVERTISEMENTFifty-one days before the FBI final assault, scores of federal Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms agents launched an attack on the Davidians’ home spurred by allegations that they had converted semi-automatic rifles to full-automatic capacity. The ATF’s lead investigator had previously rejected an offer to peacefully ...
On This Day in 1914, US Military Slaughtered Kids in Colorado and JD Rockefeller Had Media Cover It Up
Post Date: 2018-04-20 18:59:10 by Deckard
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Free Thought Project – by John Vibes On April 19 and 20, 1914, during a miner strike in Colorado, the National Guard killed dozens of people—though the exact number of casualties is disputed, most sources agree that at least four women and 11 children were among the dead. When the workers first went on strike, they were evicted from the company-owned houses in the mining town, so they set up massive tent colonies outside of the towns. The workers were protesting for higher wages and better work qualities but were making very little progress. The largest of these tent cities was in Ludlow, just outside of John D. Rockefeller’s Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. The ...
The Oklahoma City Bombing - Were there additional explosive charges and additional bombers?
Post Date: 2018-04-20 09:14:25 by Deckard
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A brief overview of the official story of the Oklahoma City bombing: On April 17, 1995 Timothy McVeigh reportedly picked up a 20-foot Ryder truck from Elliott's Body Shop in Junction City. The truck was filled with roughly 5,000 pounds (2,300 kg) of ammonium nitrate, an agricultural fertilizer, and nitromethane, a highly volatile motor-racing fuel-a mixture also known as Kinepak or ANFO (ammonium nitrate/fuel oil).At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, the truck exploded in the street in front of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building. About 90 minutes later, McVeigh was stopped by an Oklahoma state trooper for driving a vehicle without a license plate, who then arrested him on a firearms ...
23 Years Later: The Oklahoma City Bombing Story You Were Never Told About
Post Date: 2018-04-20 08:21:03 by Deckard
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Sgt. Terrance Yeakey was an Oklahoma City Police Officer, a first responder to the OKC bombing, and an American hero. Officer Yeakey, known to friends as Terry, saved the lives of eight people from the Alfred P. Murrah building on the morning of April 19, 1995. Terry was a few blocks away from Timothy McVeigh and the now infamous Ryder truck – which was brimming with explosives – when it detonated and erased the lives of 168 people, including 19 children. Yeakey rushed to the blast site, and without regard for his own life, began pulling people from the rubble one by one. Instead of being showered with accolades by his government for his heroic efforts, Terrance was silenced for ...
Flashback: Vice President Joe Biden: No improper motive by feds at Waco, the Davidians “committed suicide”
Post Date: 2018-04-20 06:59:20 by Deckard
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Liberty Fight – by Martin Hill, May 31, 2010 Vice president of the United States Joe Biden, who proudly announced “I am a zionist” before taking office, blamed the Branch Davidians in Texas for the fire that took the lives of 76 men, women and children. In reviewing the excellent 1997 documentary Waco: The Rules of Engagement last month on the 17th anniversary of the federal government orchestrated massacre near Waco Texas, the final minutes of the film reveal Congressional testimony from the hearings on Waco in which Biden and a gaggle of other disgusting government apologists pronounce that the government was blameless in the entire ordeal. ...
About the Pocket Watch
Post Date: 2018-04-19 05:50:33 by Deckard
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If you were in the market for a watch in 1880, would you know where to get one? You would go to a store, right? Well, of course you could do that, but if you wanted one that was cheaper and a bit better than most of the store watches, you went to the train station! Sound a bit funny? Well, for about 500 towns across the northern United States , that’s where the best watches were found. Why were the best watches found at the train station? The railroad company wasn’t selling the watches, not at all. The telegraph operator was. Most of the time the telegraph operator was located in the railroad station because the telegraph lines followed the railroad tracks from town ...
What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
Post Date: 2018-04-12 01:02:57 by Tooconservative
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We’ve all been caught unawares by our digestive tract at one time or another. It happened to the Nash family several months ago. We were nearing the end of an extended road trip, driving down a secondary highway through a sparsely populated area of Colorado at night, when one of my 9-year-old twin sons had to use the bathroom. Despite my pleading, he said he couldn’t make it to the next town. (He had to poop.) So we pulled over and headed for the bushes. After he took care of his business, we realized that we didn’t have toilet paper with us. The whole dramatic episode got me thinking, and for the next couple of hours, I pondered toilet paper and the cultural nature of ...
Bush Angle to Reagan Shooting Still Unresolved as Hinckley Walks
Post Date: 2018-03-30 08:46:46 by Deckard
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President Reagan with the Bush family. Left to right: Neil Bush, Marvin Bush, Reagan, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Jeb Bush. Photo credit: Reagan LibraryWhy did George H.W. Bush and his cabinet determine that John W. Hinckley Jr. — the man who in 1981 tried to kill the newly inaugurated President Ronald Reagan — was a lone nut, and no conspiracy, foreign or domestic, was involved? How did they arrive at this conclusion just five hours after the shooting, without any thorough examination?And why won’t the Federal Bureau of Investigation release its documents on the shooter?Hinckley, who was released from a federal psychiatric facility on August 5, 2016 after 35 ...
1929 - Interviews With Elderly People Throughout The US (Includes Civil War Vets)
Post Date: 2018-03-26 13:32:29 by Liberator
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Compilation of sound interviews with some of the oldest people living in the United States in 1929. Footage is from the early Movietone sound cameras. Poster Comment:Absolutely fascinating and humbling news reel. Quality is surprisingly good. Note the general positive, content attitude and mood of these old folks. One gent who was interviewed was 103 years old (born in 1826.) His interview begins at the 6:33 mark. IF you are further interested, there another clip of elderly being interviewed. It is well worth a look. My take from the interviews was that these older folk appear to be...joyous. The YouTube Channel (Guy Jones) is a Gold Mine of surprisingly clear and audible old film clips ...
10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-03-16 13:30:29 by Liberator
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You've heard of the "Great Books"? These are their evil opposites. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, these "influential" books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous social experiments. And yet these authors' bad ideas are still popular and pervasive-in fact, they might influence your own thinking without your realizing it. Here with the antidote is Professor Benjamin Wiker. In his scintillating new book, '10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help', he seizes each of these evil books ...
Seventy-two killed resisting gun confiscation in Boston!
Post Date: 2018-03-16 05:44:01 by Deckard
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Boston – National Guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed by elements of a Para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw. Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement. Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices. The governor, who described the group’s organizers as ...
The Alamo Fell To The Mexicans And Santa Anna On This Day 182 Years Ago (March 6th)
Post Date: 2018-03-07 00:37:08 by 3-Dee
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The Alamo Fell To The Mexicans And Santa Anna On This Day 182 Years Ago (March 6th) Today is the 182 year anniversary of the Alamo in Texas falling to Santa Anna and the Mexican military. The Alamo fell on this day 182 years ago in the battle for Texas’ independence. pic.twitter.com/U6GeGKFtrC — Gov. Greg Abbott (@GovAbbott) March 6, 2018 A ragtag group of rebels, which included Davey Crockett, James Bowie and William Travis, engaged in a long siege with the Mexican military. The brave patriots only had about 200 men, and were facing down thousands of Santa Anna’s men. It ended when the famous fort finally fell on March 6, 1836, and the Americans were defeated. The fall ...
The American Experience,The Bombing of Wall Street
Post Date: 2018-02-18 15:52:54 by sneakypete
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American Experience : The Bombing of Wall Street Pretty interesting historical report of the attempts by the Soviets to use American communists as agents in the US as insurgents to attempt the overthrow of the US government like the Bolsheviks did the Russian government. I knew about Emma Goldman,but none of the other names rang a bell. She was deported back to her beloved Communist state,only to have to flee it a few years later after Beria declared her to be an enemy of the state. IIRC,she had to flee to Canada because she would have been arrested if she had returned to America. She lived in NYC before being deported. BTW,this detail wasn't mentioned in the PBS broacast. It is ...
The American Experience,The Gilded Age
Post Date: 2018-02-12 01:09:57 by sneakypete
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The "thinking" of leftists on full display. The American Experience is in general one of PBS's most leftist leaning programs,and the series "The Gilded Age" is about the transformation of America from a primitive rural age where there are no real jobs other than in the cities,and most American lead a day to day life of manual labor on small farms or ranches to eek out a subsistence lifestyle. No real money to speak of,and nothing to fall back on but distant neighbors if the men die or get injured,to the creation of the industrial nation in the late 1890's and early 1900's. A prime example is right after explaining how US Steel was created and Andrew ...
Dave Brubeck: Perfect Timing
Post Date: 2018-01-27 09:53:00 by Deckard
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Dave Brubeck played piano. He became the most famous jazz piano master in the second half of the twentieth century.He got started in 1942. He played until he died in 2012. That was a 70-year career.He studied music at the College of the Pacific. Only toward the end did one of his professors discover that he could not sight-read music. He was allowed to graduate only by promising never to teach piano. That was in 1942.He was immediately inducted into the Army. He got started with jazz when he was stationed in Europe. He played for the troops at a Red Cross show one evening. They were so enthusiastic that the Army had him create a jazz band. That was one of the truly brilliant military ...
The Birth of Israel: Myths And Realities
Post Date: 2018-01-26 04:23:37 by A Pole
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The Birth of Israel: Myths And Realities By Simha Flapan. New York: Pantheon, 1987. 277 pp. $6.95 (paper). Reviewed by Andrew I. Killgore "Palestine will become as Jewish as England is English."—Chaim Weizmann, first president of Israel in his autobiography, Trial and Error. A dimly lit chamber, a spotlight focused on a massive table at the center. On the table a beautifully wrapped package labeled: Israel, America's Strategic Ally. Seven pencil-thin legs "support" the table. And a surrealistic touch out of Salvador Dali: the legs do not quite reach the floor. The subject is not levitation. In a literal sense, it is a review of Simha Flapan's seminal ...
POS! (LBJ)
Post Date: 2018-01-25 09:38:18 by Deckard
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Tim Ogle: This Guy’s Device Got 100 Miles Per Gallon – Then He Had An Attempt On His Life & Later Mysteriously Died
Post Date: 2018-01-19 22:12:33 by Deckard
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Many people will be familiar with the story of Tim Ogle. Ogle invented a device in 1977 that could go on any car and provide the owner with an automobile that could get 100 miles per gallon with zero carbon emissions. Now that, is revolutionary and it makes me wonder why no one actually ever went on to develop his product, but I think we all know the ultimate reason, don’t we? In any case, I ran across this story from Jay Syrmopoulos at The Free Thought Projectand thought I would share it with you because I think it is that important. If we could develop this now on a large scale, using the internet and people could put these on their cars, not only would they save big money ...
HIT & RUN BLOG 3 Lessons from Prohibition, Which Started Today in 1919
Post Date: 2018-01-17 05:35:22 by Deckard
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On January 16, 1919, the 18th Amendment became law when five state legislatures (North Carolina, Utah, Nebraska, Missouri, and Wyoming) passed it. In the end, 46 of 48 states passed it, with only Connecticut and Rhode Island voting it down. The text of the amendment set into motion what became known as Prohibition: Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all the territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have ...
Awesome Guitar: Dave Edmunds, "Sabre Dance" (1994)
Post Date: 2018-01-16 17:36:54 by Deckard
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Origins of Modern Jazz: West Coast Branch
Post Date: 2018-01-13 10:00:33 by Deckard
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When I say "modern jazz," I mean post-World War II jazz. Two things characterize it: (1) small bands; (2) it is for listening, not dancing.Big band jazz was different. The era of the big jazz bands, meaning swing bands, lasted a decade: from about 1931 (Harlem’s Chick Webb) through 1942: mobilization during World War II. It was Benny Goodman's band, beginning in 1935, that made the music popular.The year 1942 was also the beginning of the strike of the musicians' union. The union refused to allow its members to record music, except for the Armed Forces Radio Network, which was broadcast only overseas. Live performances were allowed. The strike lasted until late 1944. ...
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